Flyleaf has been gaining more popularity today among Filipino music enthusiasts, with their hits making it to the local music charts recently serve as a proof .

While many loud rockers reopen old wounds by singing about their broken homes and broken hearts, Belton, TX quintet Flyleaf confronts past injuries to heal old scars and in the process prove that hope shines brighter than despair. “A flyleaf is the blank page at the front of a book,” explains Mosley. “It’s the dedication page, the place you write a message to someone you’re giving a book to. And that’s kind of what our songs are: personal messages that provide a few moments of clarity before the story begins.”

Flyleaf’s self-titled debut album is filled with songs about abuse, neglect, addiction, dysfunction, and overcoming adversity. The band’s wide array of brooding beats, atmospheric textures and lunging riffs compliment Lacey Mosley’s emotionally charged vocals, which range from breathy and beautiful to scathing and aggressive.

Flyleaf’s infectiously heavy positivism is all the more surprising considering the lead vocalist’s struggles while growing up. “My mom was a young single mother of six,” she explains. “We didn’t have money and things were hard for all of us. We moved whenever we couldn’t make ends meet in one place, and that happened pretty often so there was a lot of struggling, suffering, and character building.”

Flyleaf played anywhere they could, slowly but consistently increasing their fan base with local bands and national acts like Riddlin Kids, Bowling For Soup, Fishbone, and one of the bands that took the Phlippines by storm, Evanescence. After many meetings and much deliberation, Flyleaf signed with A&M/Octone.

The band’s self-titled debut EP — produced by a star studded team: Rick Parasher (Pearl Jam, Blind Melon) and Brad Cook (Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age) – dropped, and listeners got a taste of the band’s poignant song craft through tracks like “Breathe Today,” “Cassie,” and “I’m Sorry”. To support the EP, Flyleaf toured with Saliva, Breaking Benjamin, 3 Doors Down, Staind and Trust Company. Though many audiences had never heard mention of Flyleaf when they started playing, their spirited nightly performances earned them new fans. Here in the Philippines, their new single “So Sick” has been gaining airplays and local acts have been doing underground covers of their songs even before its official release date!

Hear more of Flyleaf as they sing, play and growl praises as they make their way into the Filipino music scene – another groundbreaking record from MCA Music Inc.